Surname meaning for "Hale"

English (also well established in South Wales): topographic
name for someone who lived in a nook or hollow, from Old English and
Middle English hale, dative of h(e)alh ‘nook’,
‘hollow’. In northern England the word often has a specialized
meaning, denoting a piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a
river, typically one deposited in a bend. In southeastern England it
often referred to a patch of dry land in a fen. In some cases the
surname may be a habitational name from any of the several places in
England named with this fossilized inflected form, which would
originally have been preceded by a preposition, e.g. in the
hale or at the hale.